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+qemu
+----
+
+Why not VirtualBox, VMWare, Vex? Because:
+- it's really free
+- is fully batchable (Unix-philosophy, no GUI-nightmares)
+- it's really fast
+- the disk image format is quite open, so it should be able
+  to convert it into many other formats
+
+kernel
+------
+
+make allnoconfig
+
+select just hardware which is available in the QEMU emulation
+
+busybox
+-------
+
+make allnoconfig
+
+select just what's needed for booting and running a simple application
+
+GPM
+---
+
+so that copy-paste from/to the minilinux work
+
+miniperl
+--------
+
+Just as a demo of an application running on this minimal Linux.
+
+How to run it?
+--------------
+
+export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0		(if the console mouse doesn't work)
+
+qemu -hda appliance.img
+
+or
+
+Visualbox (create a new machine using an "existing" virtual harddisk,
+appliance.vdi)
+
+or
+
+VMWare: start the player, workstation with the appliance.vmx virtual
+machine description